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Reg- and rect-, which are ultimately from the same source (Proto-Indo-European *reg). The root "reg-" gives us words like "regular", "regimen" and "rule" (the last via French, hence the loss of the 'g'); the root "rect-" gives us "rectify", "direct", "rectilinear" and so forth.

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